Literary fiction. Short stories, mostly centred on characters who are Black girls and young women living in Florida. Relationships, loss, embodied messiness in everyday life and in those few-in-a-lifetime moments when everything changes. The stories were more distinct from each other than you often find in an early-career collection like this, while still having a tone, an ache, that threaded through them, faintly but still strongly enough to tie them together. Some stories hit the mark for me more effectively than others, of course, but the writing was good. Overall, a decent read but didn’t blow me away.
Originally posted by Scott on Goodreads.